Next summer I'm travelling around Europe by rail during Euro 2012, aiming to see as many matches
in as many different countries as possible. The tournament itself is being held in Poland and the
Ukraine (as the image above handily illustrates) and I'll go to a couple of actual matches there
but I want to watch the Croats play whilst in Croatia (with their fans), the Bulgarians whilst in
Bulgaria, the Latvians whilst in Latvia, etc.

The golden age is over! The likes of Gerrard, Lampard and Beckham are all in their 30's and
seemingly starting to feel the pace of the modern game. With such dependence on these key figure
heads in recent years who will come through and replace them? Has England learnt from previous
criticism over the lack of English players in the game and poor academy setups?

Being as I barely update this site anymore, here are some more active/useful ones for you to
visit. You all know the newspaper sites, Football365, ESPN, etc for news and match reports and
stuff, but these you may not have heard of.

Goals/Highlights and Games

101GreatGoals - Updated incessantly with goals from all around the world.

David Silva spent most of his debut forÂ Manchester City being buffeted about the pitch by
Tottenham's Tom Huddlestone on the opening day of the season. Then it seemed like City's big summer
signing was not made for English football, where praise from pundits generally centres on a
player's pace, power and drive, rather than his vision or ball skills.

It's the Ashes at the moment, already far better (patriotic) viewing than the World Cup proved
to be. The England cricket team are an endearing bunch too, well spoken, seem like good lads,
interview well, etc etc (apart from Jonathan 'I'm a slightly mental yet really boring cunt'
Trott).

FIFA have announced their shortlist for the 2010 Puskas award, which is essentially goal of the
year (scored between Jan 1st and October 15th).

I can't be bothered to relink all them all from here, so click through to watch high quality
videos of high quality goals.

I think my pick is Altintop (despite it being a worse version of Gareth Bale's the other week)
the Japanese one is just stupid, such abhorrent defending and Tshiblalalalalalala is only in there
for racial equality.

Chelsea and Man City are both stuttering and that's far from where the parallels end. Both sets
of fans are unhappy after the weekend. Both clubs have billionaire foreign investors who have
poured millions into the club. Both are nouveau-riche neither has previously been a the forefront
of the English game.